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Month: February 2009

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Press Report : SMC Rover in High Wycombe to close on Saturday

27 February 2009 Clive Goldthorp 0

Alex Hayes, This Is Local London, 26th February, 2009 A landmark High Wycombe garage will close its doors for the final time on Saturday. The SMC MG Rover garage is closing […]

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Press Report : Jaguar Land Rover pay-freeze vote next week

27 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

RAC News, 26th February, 2009 A proposed one-year pay freeze and four-day week at Tata-owned car giant Jaguar Land Rover are to be put to the vote next week. The […]

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Press Report : Czech army to buy Land Rovers for foreign missions

27 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Prague Daily Monitor/Czech News Agency(CTK), 27th February, 2009 The Czech military wants to purchase another 79 Land Rover Defender off-road utility vehicles by the end of November, First Deputy Defence […]

China Watch

China Watch : SAIC aims to sell 60,000 Roewe, MG cars in '09

27 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

George Gao, Shanghai, Gasgoo.com, 24th February, 2009 In its effort to cut costs, Chinese auto giant SAIC is merging the sales networks of its Roewe and MG brands and aims […]

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China Watch : China to pay $615m for Jaguar, Land Rover cars

27 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Gasgoo.com, Shanghai, 26th February, 2009 Chinese firms will agree to pay a combined $615 million for 3,000 Jaguar and 6,000 Land Rover automobiles during a government-led trip to the U.K., […]

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Press Report : LDV bidder would shift production abroad

27 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Jonathan Guthrie in Birmingham, Financial Times, 27th February, 2009 LDV, the troubled Birmingham vanmaker that is seeking government aid, said on Friday that an unnamed bidder had proposed to buy […]

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Sad times

24 February 2009 Keith Adams 16

Keith Adams So, it looks like it could be the end for LDV and I, for one, can’t help but feel that these are increasingly looking like desperate times for […]

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Press Report : Managers seek LDV vans buyout

24 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Jonathan Guthrie, Financial Times, 23rd February, 2009 A management team hopes to buy LDV, the troubled Birmingham vanmaker that ceased production in December. It is seeking a bridging loan from […]

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Press Report : To ditch a car subsidiary is new vogue

24 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

John Reed in Detroit, Financial Times, 24th February, 2009 Worldwide, people defaulting on mortgages are leaving homes behind. In the car industry, manufacturers are cutting their losses and ditching subsidiaries. […]

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Press Report : JLR workers to hold pay ballot

24 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Michael Kavanagh, Financial Times, 24th February, 2009 Workers at Jaguar Land Rover will hold a ballot on a deal aimed at avoiding compulsory job losses for two years in exchange […]

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Press Report : BMW sheds 850 jobs at MINI

16 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

Philip Stafford, Financial Times, 16th February, 2009 BMW confirmed on Monday that 850 jobs will be cut and operating times shortened at its Mini manufacturing plant at Cowley in Oxfordshire […]

Opinion

Welcome back to Britain…

13 February 2009 Keith Adams 3

Keith Adams So, after ten days in Egypt covering the Nile Trial, where the temperature refused to dip below 25 degrees, I step off a plane at Heathrow only to […]

Opinion

The cars roll in…

5 February 2009 Keith Adams 0

Keith Adams Last night, the competitors’ cars on the Nile Trial 2009 rolled in to Giza. And what a sight they made after the organized chaos of the roads I […]

Opinion

British Leyland in The Times : Part Two

4 February 2009 Keith Adams 11

Ian Nicholls Some time ago I wrote a blog detailing how I was using The Times Online archive service to research the history of British Leyland from 1968 to 1985. […]

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What an ace experience…

4 February 2009 Keith Adams 1

Keith Adams I sit here writing this from a hotel balcony in Gisa, Egypt with a view overlooking two of the pyramids. It’s warm and balmy, with the temperature sure […]

Our Cars

Our Cars : Project Tomcat

1 February 2009 Keith Adams 0

Update: 1 February 2009 The Tomcat is now on the road. Rather like getting a chocolate gateaux out of the freezer, and having to endure the agonizing defrost period before […]

Car of the Month

Car of the Month : February 2009

1 February 2009 Keith Adams 2

Graham Eason runs a classic car hire business called Great Escapes, and one of his fleet is this magnificent 1974 Jaguar XJ6 4.2 in long wheelbase form. As you can […]

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India Watch : Sales slump takes toll on India carmakers

1 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

James Fontanella-Khan in Mumbai and Amy Kazmin in New Delhi FT.com, 30th January, 2009 India’s two largest carmakers were hard hit by plunging car sales in the last quarter of […]

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India Watch : India’s Tata Motors losses $54m in quarter

1 February 2009 Andrew McCheyne 0

International Herald Tribune/Associated Press, 30th January, 2009 MUMBAI, India – Tata Motors lost 2.63bn rupees ($54 million) last quarter as cost-cutting efforts failed to make up for withering demand, high […]

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